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Can cloud technology improve a Drupal implementation?

Is like me trying to sing RAP music. Last night Businessweek posted an article about “Clouds”.

When I asked my oncologist if I could go scuba diving, he thought for a while and said, “Medically, I can’t think of any reason you can’t …. but I have to admit, it’s not a question

Alan Ganek the Chief Technology Officer of Tivoli software & VP of Autonomic Computing picked the wrong day to give an un-prepared “Blue Cloud” presentation yesterday

Ten really useful open source tools that are useful for education.

When stealth startups are getting second round funding and 23 year old Harvard drop outs become billionaires.

While all other cloud vendors are trying to justify using “Cloud” in their name vendors like Elastra, RigthScale, and 3Tera are walking the walk.

A comprehensive list and categorization of Cloud Computing Vendors

While reading another Gartner Smartner article this evening I started thinking what went wrong over there. How did they become so insignificant.

First of there are three kinds of clouds and when you are talking about a cloud technology you need to be specific.

when Melissa Gira Grant Valleywag.com starts commenting on Sudhir Venkatesh I think of the scene in the Big Lebowski where John Goodman is yelling at Donnie telling him he is out of his element.

A little over a month ago I switched my blog site over from Amazon’s EC2 to Mosso.com in preparation of some viral activities Mosso has supported my traffic fluctuations brilliantly.

Oh, here’s the best part, standard prices include a 3.5 GPA however for an additional $75 you can get a 4.0. In an enterprise/web 2.0 world why hasn’t Harvard and Yale figured this model out.

I’ll take five. Do they have kid sizes? Can I get a discount for family pack. How about one for my wifes stupid dog Stevie Ray Willis?

The non Botchanomic manager will want you to show him the ROI. My god, the Botchanomic manager already knows the ROI and is desperately seeking a service.

A simple bot demo goes nuts. The bot jumps the parking lot curve almost eats one of the Barcamp attendees then proceeds to start destroying someones air conditioner.

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” - Jonathan Swift

This blog site was down for about 20 minutes today. It looks like Mosso lost a MySQL cluster this morning. Just keeping it real, I had Amazon EC2 for 90 days and I had zero outages.

Top 10 things I like and dislike about Canada

Market myopia, cloud and Drupal talk. A few podcasts and some silly stuff as well.

This is a very cool article on how to install Drupal on an XO (OLPC).

Let me set the stage for this slide show. A customer was involved in a long and intense beta program and as a reward the vendor sent six mugs in a unpacked box. Only three of the six mugs survived.

I am in the process of completing a 25 page white paper that describes the seven technologies that are going to disrupt legacy enterprise IT.

“Five Nines (99.999) equates to 25 plane crashes a year” speech. I am sure she is explaining to someone right now about how last Fridays Amazon’s S3 outage was the equivalent of 34 plane crashes.

Don’t you just love Captcha’s? CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test”. I just call them PITA (pain in the ass). Here are my top 10 worst Captcha’s ever

I guess it’s 99. today for Amazon S3 customers. Man do I have timing or what. We literally moved this blog site server off of AWS this week in preparation for our move over to Mosso this weekend.

For example, this weekend Turner Broadcasting will be streaming the NBA All Star game directly to Akamai servers around the world.

IT Management Guys Podcast #5

The world might have easily missed the fact that William von Meister invented AOL had Steve Case not shown up for his memorial service on May 20, 1995.

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